Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?

Anja works at a bank and in her spare time she is active in the volunteer fire department. When fire brigade leader Rainer makes the divorced mother of two a temporary squad leader, not everyone agrees. Especially not Meike, who is new to the squad.

This scenic documentary attempts to reconstruct the last days of Jesus Christ - from his arrival in Jerusalem to his death on the cross. But what is faith and what is historical? The narrative begins with the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem with a small group of followers, continues with the scandal in the temple, the provocation of the Jewish rulers, the trial before the Roman prefect and the execution of the sentence.

A kindly but poverty-stricken fisherman catches a magical fish. The fish begs him to let it go, claiming to be a prince. The fisherman lets it go and tells his wife all about it. The fisherman's wife is overbearing and greedy and she demands that he go back and ask the fish to grant him a wish out of gratitude. The fisherman does not have any desires, so the wife tells him to make the fish give them a nicer house, which is what she wants. Mandje! Mandje! Timpe Te! Flounder, flounder, in the sea! For my wife, good ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will."

Russell, a theatrical agent, is hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life as the kids have finally left home. His wife, Edie, is not happy about this. Their son Matt, is wrestling with a relationship in which he earns less than his successful girlfriend and daughter Rosa is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. Living on your own, it seems, may not be as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. Rosa is the first of the Boyd children to think she may have to move back in with her parents-just until she can make ends meet again. Set in Boston, Massachusetts, this is the empty nest, twenty-first-century style-with grown children coming and going just as parents are getting ready for their second honeymoon.

Sebastian, a young male prostitute, is one of Georgs few remaining chances to break through his hermit-like everyday life in exchange for a few fleeting moments of being together with someone at least for a few hours. Georg loves Sebastians easy-going and playful manner. He loves the absurd stories that the boy spontaneously comes up with and Georg never knows whether to actually believe all of them or not.

Housewife Marie is surprised by the tragic death of her husband. Suddenly she has to look after her family alone. Fortunately, her husband was an entrepreneur, so she takes over his business. To her astonishment, however, she discovers that the business is a pornographic film production company. She overcomes her aversion to the industry and leads “MarieX” to its former success. In the process, she also falls in love with the attractive porn actor Roy.

After the body of an escort girl is found in a mountain lake, the case quickly turns personal for the lead investigator.

A year after firefighters Anja and Meike met, one would think that they had become friends - if only they weren't such grumps. Anja has lost her house and now has to move in with Meike, but the latter would actually prefer to return to the army.